On October 5, The Washington Post hosted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, for an interview with columnist David Ignatius. Cotton, an Iraq war veteran and the Senate's youngest member, discussed recent developments with North Korea, ISIS and Russia. He also shared his viewpoint on the relationship between immigration and national security as well as the administration’s handling of various crises around the world.

This event is part of the ongoing Securing Tomorrow series featuring Ignatius in conversation with leaders in national security, intelligence and defense about what’s at stake for the world.

In the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) responded on Thursday to calls for stricter gun control measures, saying that he would be “willing to entertain” the idea of regulating “bump stocks,” devices that the Las Vegas shooter used to speed up the gunfire of rifles he used in the massacre.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) says that he would be willing to consider controls on so-called “bump-stock” conversion kits for firearms, as he shares his perspective on gun control in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history this week in Las Vegas.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) represents Arkansas in the U.S. Senate where he serves on the Banking Committee, Intelligence Committee, and the Armed Services Committee. Cotton also served nearly five years in the United States Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

David Ignatius is a Columnist for The Washington Post. He writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column and contributes to the PostPartisan blog.

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